Conway Business and Professional Women is a Local Organization of Business and Professional Women/USA.  BPW/USA founded in 1919, promotes equity for all women in the workplace through advocacy, education and information. With 1,500 Local Organizations across the country and members in every congressional district, BPW/USA is the leading advocate for millions of workingwomen on work-life balance and workplace equity issues. BPW Local Organizations provide members with professional development programs, networking, participation in grassroots activism, and opportunities to support scholarships for disadvantaged women.

Conway Business and Professional Women

Pay Equity

                                                                 Mission Statement

While women have made progress in several areas, some facets of the workforce are changing much too slowly. The wage gap has narrowed by only a half a penny a year for the past 40 years.  The gap between median earnings of full-time, year-round workers has women’s earnings 77% of men’s, in 2006.  At this rate, it will take another 40 years for women to reach wage parity with men, and over the course of a working lifetime, the average woman loses approximately $523,000 due to the wage gap.